"By Sacred Waters" © 1995

 1995 Native American Music Awards Nominee

This is my first CD of Flute Music. The music on this album is a mixture of flute music with instrumental accompaniment, for those who like flute music mixed with piano, synthesizer, and guitar. It is available by contacting me through this website, by email or by contacting Sunshine Records (see "contact us" webpage).  $15.00 each. Contact us for shipping and handling charges. Songs on the CD are shown below.

"I began playing flutes during the time of my youngest daughter's illness to help give her strength. A song I wrote for her is on the CD below. I continued to play the flute after her passing on into the Spirit World to honor her memory. I also then began making flutes, under the name of Peace Tree Flutes with my father-in-law. When he passed over into the Spirit World I walked away from both playing flutes and making them for a period of years. I now have returned to once again playing this beautiful instrument and may one day consider making them again. Ioanere (It is good)." ~Sakoieta'~

While I was in the studio I decided to re-release my first album, "By Sacred Waters". Here it is in it's final format. I hope you like it.

Please click on the highlighted song title to hear selection sample 

1) ZUNI SUNRISE SONG (3:46) (audio sample) - This song comes from the Zuni people of the Southwestern U.S. As the sun rises each day in the east, this time of illumination, songs are sung or played to give thanks for the new day. All of creation joins in, the birds, wind, water, and animals. In this way Creator blesses us each day.

2) PIPE SONG (6:01) - The pipe is an instrument of prayer and thanksgiving. When used, it unites and connects all of creation together with us in a time of prayer and renewal. This song is a variation of a song that comes from the Anishinabe people of Manitoba. It is dedicated to good friends, Dan Thomas, Garry Robson, Carl Stone, and Wally Swain of the Little Peguis Midewewin Lodge.

3) RAINBOW EARTH WOMAN SONG (4:05) - This is a song I wrote for my children’s mother. She is a good friend and works as a cultural educator with the Anishinabe people of Manitoba. She and I parted ways after the death of our daughter. I send her many good thoughts of peace, love, and friendship.

4) SOMEWHERE A CHILD IS BORN (4:32) - Nothing is more sacred or precious than the birth of a child. These children come to us as gifts from Creator. They are not ours to own. We realize at anytime Creator can call for them and we are to let them go. While we have them we are to teach them how to be good humans being and teach them how to pray and come to know Creator.

5) SHONI’S PRAYER SONG (4:40) - There was a beautiful spirit that blessed our lives for six and one–half years. She was a bright sunbeam, a beautiful butterfly, she was our youngest daughter, Shoni Kateri Widrick or Red Willow (Miskobeek) as she was called by her Ojibway name. She was with us for only a short time, but she did her work and she did it well. She left us to go back across the sky to Creator’s land. We miss her and love her. We will see her again. This is her song. Niawenhko:wa Shoni.

6) AMAZING GRACE (5:07) (audio sample) - A variation of an old hymn. I believe this is one of the only hymns that is played by almost every flute artist. Amazingly we all play a unique version of this hymn in which no two are alike. I offer this as a thank you to those ministers, Malcolm Wenger, Ike Froese, and Jake Wiebe who were involved in good ways in my life. Many thanks to them. Niawenhko:wa.

7) EAGLE’S CALL (3:34) (audio sample) - The eagle flies at the top of our Tree of Peace. Should any danger ever approach the Tree, the eagle will call out its warning and we are to respond. This song is dedicated to my friends at the Mohawk community of Kanatsiohareke, near Fonda, New York. My friend, Tom Porter, has answered the eagle’s call to try to keep alive our Mohawk way of life. I can only say Niawenhko:wa, Sakokwenionkwas. My prayers are with you and the people at Kanatsiohareke.

8) PEACE LIKE A RIVER (3:51) - We have been taught that we are to be a people of peace. We are to live lives that are dedicated to peaceful pursuits. We are to live in peace, to love peace, and to teach peace to all nations of the world. There will come a time, our prophecies say, when all of creation will once again live in peace, like it did at the beginning, when our Creator, Sonkwaiatison first created it. This I believe with all my being. I give thanks to our Creator, Sonkwaiatison from whom peace comes, and the ways he has revealed himself to us.

9) RED WILLOW LULLABYE (2:51) (audio sample) - At the close of the day, when the sun begins to sink into the west, this is a time of introspection, as we enter the “great silence”. We look back on the day and give thanks for what God has given. Where we have made mistakes we make those right, so when the sun finally sets we are to be at peace with all things. This is our primary task as human beings, to be a people of prayer and thanksgiving. We give thanks for all things, the good and the bad. There are songs that are sung or played on flute, drum, or rattle, that return thanks to Creator.

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Tunes can also be downloaded at:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/sakoieta-widrick/id333407165